Archive for December, 2011

Diabetes During Pregnancy, Don’t be Afraid of It

Diabetes during pregnancy is a common thing experienced by many pregnant women. This kind of diabetes (or, better known as gestational diabetes) happens when insulin action is blocked by various hormones to make sure that the growing baby gets enough sugar. Therefore, your body needs to produce more insulin to deal with this condition. When your body can’t produce more insulin, that’s the time you have gestational diabetes. Normally, diabetes in pregnancy only occurs in the second half of pregnancy and usually goes away after giving birth. If it doesn’t, then there’s a possibility that you already had type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes before getting pregnant. Read more…

Foot Ulcer Treatment for Diabetics

Skin ulcer is when  a skin area has broken and the tissues beneath the skin becomes visible. Skin ulcer happens mostly on the lower legs or feet and it’s called feet ulcer. This condition can develop into diabetic foot, a kind of diabetes complication. Foot ulcer is a common thing to people with diabetes type1 or diabetes type 2. On the other hand, foot ulcer treatment is something easy to gain. What are the main cause of foot ulcer?

Not Much Sensations on Your Feet Skin

This complication is called neuropathy of diabetes. A slightly high blood sugar can, over time, damage some of your nerves. That leads to reduced sensation on your feet. Read more…

Polyuria and Diabetes Mellitus

If you’re a diabetic, you’re probably familiar with the word polyuria. Polyuria is an excessive urine (at least 2.5 liters a day) which causes profuse urination and urinary frequency (the need to urinate frequently). Maybe you know already that polyuria is a classic diabetes mellitus symptom. However, polyuria can occur in some other condition, too (i.e. diabetes insipidus, myeloma, etc). So, what’s the deal between polyuria and diabetes? How can polyuria be the symptom of diabetes mellitus? Read more…

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Ketogenic Diet Lowers Blood Glucose

Ketogenic diet, also popular as keto diet, is plainly a low carb diet. The keto diet plan covers meals that are high in fat and very low in carbohydrates. This kind of diet works by forcing the body to burn fat rather than carbohydrates. If we only have low carbohydrates in our body, the liver will convert fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. Then, ketone bodies replace glucose as an energy source.

Back in the 20’s, ketogenic diet was used as a therapeutic method to treat children who suffer from epilepsy. It was a very popular epilepsy treatment until the introduction of anticonvulsant drugs. Newer research proves that keto diet is also useful for treating diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, neurodegenerative disorder, etc. Read more…

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